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Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 1 A Cloudy Forecast |
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1 | (16) |
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2 | (4) |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (3) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Does the Cloud Matter? |
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17 | (12) |
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19 | (2) |
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Competitiveness Confrontation |
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21 | (5) |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (3) |
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29 | (20) |
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Insanity or Inevitability? |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (3) |
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The Networked Organization |
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38 | (3) |
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Form Follows Function, IT Follows Form |
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41 | (1) |
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Aligning Cloud with Strategy |
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42 | (1) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (5) |
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Chapter 4 Challenging Convention |
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49 | (14) |
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50 | (1) |
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50 | (2) |
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Competitive Advantage and Customer Value |
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52 | (3) |
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55 | (3) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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61 | (2) |
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Chapter 5 What Is a Cloud? |
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63 | (14) |
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64 | (2) |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (1) |
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Difference from Traditional Purchase and Ownership |
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70 | (2) |
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Cloud Criteria and Implications |
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72 | (1) |
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Is the Cloud New or a New Buzzword? |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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Chapter 6 Strategy and Value |
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77 | (14) |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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Comparative Advantage and Core versus Context |
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80 | (1) |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (1) |
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Opportunity Cost and Cost Avoidance |
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83 | (1) |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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Customer and User Experience and Loyalty |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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Community and Sustainability |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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Competitive Vitality and Survival |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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89 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 When---and When Not---to Use the Cloud |
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91 | (16) |
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91 | (10) |
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Inappropriate Cloud Use Cases |
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101 | (3) |
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104 | (1) |
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104 | (3) |
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107 | (18) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (11) |
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Chase Demand or Shape It? |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (3) |
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Chapter 9 Capacity Conundrum |
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125 | (12) |
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126 | (1) |
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Fixed Capacity versus Variable Demand |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (3) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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Chapter 10 Significance of Scale |
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137 | (22) |
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Is the Cloud Like Electricity? |
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139 | (1) |
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Distributed Power Generation |
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140 | (1) |
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Is the Cloud Like Rental Cars? |
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141 | (2) |
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Capital Expenditures versus Operating Expenses |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (2) |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (4) |
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155 | (1) |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (12) |
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Is the Cloud Less Expensive? |
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159 | (2) |
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Characterizing Relative Costs and Workload Variability |
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161 | (2) |
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When Clouds Cost Less or the Same |
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163 | (1) |
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If Clouds Are More Expensive |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (3) |
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167 | (2) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (10) |
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Users, Enterprise, and Cloud |
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172 | (2) |
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Hybrid Architecture Implementations |
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174 | (6) |
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180 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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Chapter 13 Fallibility of Forecasting |
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181 | (12) |
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Even Stranger than Strange |
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182 | (1) |
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Demand for Products and Services |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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Behavioral Cloudonomics of Forecasting |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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Chapter 14 Money Value of Time |
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193 | (16) |
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Demand and Resource Functions |
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193 | (2) |
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195 | (1) |
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Cost of Insufficient Capacity |
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196 | (1) |
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Asymmetric Penalty Functions, Perfect Capacity, and On Demand |
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197 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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Uniformly Distributed Demand |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (1) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (2) |
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204 | (2) |
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Variable Penalty Functions |
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206 | (1) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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Chapter 15 Peak Performance |
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209 | (18) |
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Relationships between Demands |
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210 | (2) |
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Lessons from Rolling Dice |
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212 | (3) |
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Coefficient of Variation and Other Statistics |
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215 | (1) |
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Statistical Effects in Independent Demand Aggregation |
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216 | (2) |
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218 | (2) |
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Issues with Perfectly Correlated Demand |
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220 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (1) |
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Peak of the Sum Is Never Greater than the Sum of the Peaks |
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222 | (2) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (1) |
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Chapter 16 Million-Dollar Microsecond |
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227 | (8) |
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228 | (2) |
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230 | (2) |
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232 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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233 | (2) |
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Chapter 17 Parallel Universe |
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235 | (10) |
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236 | (1) |
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237 | (3) |
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240 | (3) |
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243 | (1) |
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243 | (2) |
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Chapter 18 Shortcuts to Success |
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245 | (10) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (2) |
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249 | (3) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (1) |
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253 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Location, Location, Location |
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255 | (10) |
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255 | (2) |
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Circle Covering and Circle Packing |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (2) |
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Spherical Caps and the Tammes Problem |
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260 | (3) |
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263 | (1) |
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263 | (2) |
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Chapter 20 Dispersion Dilemma |
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265 | (12) |
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Strategies for Response Time Reduction |
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266 | (2) |
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Consolidation versus Dispersion |
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268 | (1) |
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Trade-offs between Consolidation and Dispersion |
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269 | (1) |
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Benefits of Consolidation |
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270 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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The Network Is the Computer |
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272 | (2) |
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274 | (1) |
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274 | (3) |
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Chapter 21 Platform and Software Services |
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277 | (16) |
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Infrastructure as a Service Benefit |
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279 | (1) |
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Paying on Actuals versus Forecasts |
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280 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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Continuously Earned Trust |
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282 | (1) |
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Visibility and Transparency |
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282 | (1) |
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Big Data and Computing Power |
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283 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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Response Time and Availability |
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284 | (1) |
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Multitenancy, Shared Data |
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284 | (1) |
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Cloud-Centric Applications |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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PaaS: Assembly versus Fabrication |
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287 | (1) |
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Innovation and Democratization |
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287 | (1) |
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Deconstructing the Pure SaaS Model |
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288 | (2) |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (2) |
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293 | (10) |
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295 | (1) |
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Availability and Probability |
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296 | (1) |
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Availability of Networked Resources |
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296 | (1) |
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Availability via Redundancy and Diversity |
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297 | (3) |
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On-Demand, Pay-per-Use Redundancy |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (2) |
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Chapter 23 Lazy, Hazy, Crazy |
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303 | (14) |
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303 | (1) |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (2) |
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307 | (1) |
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Need for Control and Autonomy |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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309 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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311 | (1) |
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Paralysis by Analysis of Choice |
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311 | (1) |
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Hyperbolic Discounts and Instant Gratification |
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312 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (3) |
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Chapter 24 Cloud Patterns |
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317 | (12) |
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317 | (4) |
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321 | (2) |
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323 | (3) |
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326 | (1) |
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Perimeters and Checkpoints |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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Chapter 25 What's Next for Cloud? |
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329 | (24) |
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329 | (3) |
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Ecosystems, Intermediaries, and the Intercloud |
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332 | (4) |
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336 | (1) |
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Consolidation and Concentration |
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336 | (2) |
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338 | (1) |
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Spending More while Paying Less |
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339 | (1) |
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Enabling Vendor Strategies |
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340 | (4) |
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Standards, APIs, Certification, and Rating Agencies |
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344 | (1) |
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Commoditization or Innovation? |
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345 | (4) |
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About the Author |
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About the Web Site |
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Index |
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